Poverty In The World

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Nowadays, as people know that poverty refers to one of the biggest issues in the world so far. Many countries around the world still suffer from it and have difficult times to get rid of it. The phenomenon of poverty, an important phenomenon hard to identify and it destroys some countries in certain aspects and this issue can cause other problems for all economic and political aspects. I think that, there are many major reasons that put the world in this a bad situation. The first and most important reason that put some countries in poverty is the political instability. Political instability is one of the factors associated with poverty. In most of the countries in the world, there is a political instability. Political instability that leads …show more content…

He says that the United States is considered one of the wealthiest country in the world and has more billionaires than any other countries. However, the United States has families who have low income and low resources to afford the basic necessities such as, decent housing, food or health care. They also cannot afford basic services like child care or doctors. He says that statistic shows that about 12% of Americans do not get enough or suffered other material hardships. In other words, 37 million people who live below the poverty line. 12 out of 37 million people are children who live with families with income below the minimum wage. More children live in poverty now than 25 or 30 years ago and the numbers are increasing. Some reasons behind poverty are, low education level, lack of jobs, high divorce rate or personal problems such as chronic illness, accidents or getting married at the early ages. For example, some people who get married at the age of 16 or 18 may end up having large children and some parents cannot take care of their children. In addition to that, he says that immigrants in the United States live in poverty as well which makes the poverty rate goes up . Some of them whose languages and cultures are different from where they live, they end up working in jobs with limited incomes. As consequences, they do not make enough money to look after their families. …show more content…

The video The Hidden Reason For Poverty The World Needs To Address Now is about twenty-two minutes long and the guest speaker is Gary Haugene. He is a civil rights lawyer by profession. He speaks of his experiences when he was around the poor community of Rwanda. He and his wife have been campaigning and making their contributions in fighting poverty. He gives credit to the devoted compassion for the improvements made so far, for the eradication of poverty. He just wants that we put the power of compassion in carrying out the most efficient process to eradicate the curse of poverty from its roots. He states that poverty can’t be eradicated merely by providing financial aids and products of daily use to the poor community, by gathering funds and sacrificing for them. We need to fight the causes of poverty and the causes that are a hindering poor community to get better. He believes that poor have equal access to opportunity but there are hurdles in their ways. The most commonly found hurdle is social violence. Poor women are the most common subject of sexual violence and abuse and the dilemma is that it isn’t seen as a crime anymore. When a poor finds such a hurdle in one of his routes, he changes the route instead of getting rid of the element causing the hurdle. This is because of the understood fact that poor community lives in the areas where there is no rule of law and none of the law

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